finally! fam fotos... 4th of July and a healing touch...

Yeah, I know. July 4th was, like, six weeks ago. I've been "off my blogger" lately!

This was a really fun trip! Kassi came with us to West Monroe, LA. Friday, Trey and Brittany BBQ'd for us. They were so thoughtful and bought me some greens to get me through the day! :D We shot off fireworks in the hotel parking lot (nothing big, and NOT too late, lol).

Saturday, we stuck our feet in the pool at the hotel, and spent all day Saturday shopping (the guys went putt-putting)!

Kassi was on crutches and in a knee brace w/ lots of pain from a work related injury. Her knee was very swollen, along with her foot. She was on pain killers and still had to break down and rent a wheelchair on our Shopping expedition. Sunday night we went to Church at Trey's church and the pastor asked if anybody wanted to be healed. Kassi went up to the front and was prayed for. She received a divine instantaneous healing (for any who may not believe miracles still happens, just ask, I'll give you details!) She removed the brace immediately and left it there with the Pastor. They have it all on video. She has not had any problems with that knee since then either! The photo above was taken Sunday night after church. She's the one on the right.

This is me with one of my dearest friends Joan. She is now a Pastor's wife in Oil City, LA. It's a great church, and no wonder since they are an absolutely amazing family! We visited their church Sunday morning.

These are my girls! ARen't they gorgeous?! This picture was taken Friday, so Kas was sitting on the floor so that she didn't have to bend that knee...

Another photo Sunday night after church. Those are ALL of my kids! :D My four PLUS my new daughter in law smushed in the middle! I'm so thankful that we've been able to get together a few times lately...

Busted. LOL. That looks like a yogurt cup. Hmmm.... I have no independant recollection... Therefore it must be someone else's. Me n Mini-me Tiffy. Good times...
(actually, now that I look at it, I think that must be Will's (fruitfreek to all you twitterbugs) hand with the yogurt. He's wearing the striped dress shirt, lol. I think he's laying across our laps. AND EATING?! Typical.)

Sprouting Beginnings!

I've been saying that the next thing I wanted to dabble in is sprouting. I found this cute little sprouter for around 20 bucks on Amazon, so I decided to give it a shot... Above you'll see the seeds before soaking. The tiny ones are broccoli and the fat ones are lentil.

And... drumroll please... 48 hours later from those little dormant seeds, we have life! (After 24 hours I threw away the other full tray of broccoli seeds because they were all fuzzy, but now I see that the fuzz is just tiny roots! Oops.)

First thing Will did when I showed them to him was grab a fat lentil seed sprout and eat it! Good boy.

Joey wins talent contest at Bedford County Fair!

Yeah! He did such a great job singing. The competition was surprisingly tough! There wasn't a bad singer up there all evening. I had a few technical difficulties, though. You may notice one or two of them, if you are extremely perceptive...



Grand Prize: $15- The memory: priceless...

Raw fu challenge! ARe you ready?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ATBnUq1qY

raw foodie trip 2

Photos from Will's YMCA Camp in King, NC
http://s342.photobucket.com/albums/o425/rawtn/?action=view&current=b096df72.pbw

Photos from Virginia Beach with Rawbin
http://s342.photobucket.com/albums/o425/rawtn/?action=view&current=14ab78ea.pbw

Photos from the Mt Airy/ Sproutman/ Blaqberry/ Jer/ Rawbin excursion
http://s342.photobucket.com/albums/o425/rawtn/?action=view&current=dc45822d.pbw

Photos from WendiDee's home in PA/ Jim/ KDCat/ Medamoso/ poi
http://s342.photobucket.com/albums/o425/rawtn/?action=view&current=4d506eef.pbw

These are 'raw' slideshows, unaltered, lol. Will polish them up later! :D

Finally, the photos from Charlotte!

Will at summer camp!

Will appears to be having a great time at summer camp in King, NC!

I say 'appears' because there is no contact except checking the site's photo album daily to see if you can find your kid. You know he's loving THAT! lol.

Anyway, just wanted to share the photos as I'm feeling nostalgic since he's not here. It's very quiet at the homestead with Will at Camp and Joey at Annual Training!

Will and I had a great weekend with Bethany (lilgirlbigvoice) in Charlotte last weekend prior to taking Will to camp on Sunday. We went to the farmer's market, made raw treats in the dehydrator, and had zucchini 'pasta' in a beautiful uptown park with all the cranes you could ever want, lol. Met some new friends there at the park who brought raw brownies w/ vanilla cream sauce and yummy watermelon. (thank you madpryor!) We sat there until the sun set and relaxed and talked. Bliss. I have photos to prove all this, but I have to find my camera! I will try to post them tonight.

Sunday morning we hated to leave Bethany, our new friend, but Will was really excited about camp, so we went.

The drive up to King was amazing and peaceful. We marveled at the trees and mountains, blue skies and farmlands. When we got up to camp, I graciously offered to stay there in his place... I wanna go to summer camp! He wasn't buying it though. After hauling his gear off to cabin 14, I headed for the hills. (oh wait, I was already in the hills, lol)

I never knew that I loved driving by myself. Peace. Tranquility. Mountains. Valleys. Rest Areas. Farmer's markets in roadside buildings. Perfect life. Perfect weekend.